Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: Blu-ray
Brand: 20th Century
EAN: 0024543435457
Format: AC-3
Item Dimensions: Array
Label: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Languages: Array
Manufacturer: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
MPN: FOXBR2243547
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2008-01-08
Running Time: 146
Studio: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 2004

Hard-drinking, burnt-out ex-CIA operative John Creasy (Washington) has given up on life--until his friend Rayburn (Oscar winner Christopher Walken) gets him a job as a bodyguard to nine-year-old Pita Ramos (Dakota Fanning). Bit by bit, Creasy begins to reclaim his soul, but when Pita is kidnapped, Creasy unleashes a firestorm of apocalyptic vengeance against everyone responsible.
Style trumps substance in Man on Fire, a slick, brooding reunion of Crimson Tide star Denzel Washington and director Tony Scott. The ominous, crime-ridden setting is Mexico City, where a dour, alcoholic warrior with a mysterious Black Ops past (Washington) seeks redemption as the devoted bodyguard of a lovable 9-year-old girl (the precociously gifted Dakota Fanning), then responds with predictable fury when she is kidnapped. Prolific screenwriter Brian Helgeland (Mystic River, L.A. Confidential) sets a solid emotional foundation for Washington's tormented character, and Scott's stylistic excess compensates for a distended plot that's both repellently violent and viscerally absorbing. Among Scott's more distracting techniques is the use of free-roaming, comic-bookish subtitles... even when they're unnecessary! Adapted from a novel by A.J. Quinnell and previously filmed as a 1987 vehicle for Scott Glenn, Man on Fire is roughly on par with Scott's similar 1990 film Revenge, efficiently satisfying Washington's incendiary bloodlust under a heavy blanket of humid, doom-laden atmosphere. --Jeff Shannon

Customer Rating:
Summary: Good movie, didn't like the ending though
Comment: I didn't like the ending, so I only gave it 4 stars. I figured this would the "happy ending" movie, but it wasn't. Warning: this movie probably shouldn't be watched by those under 13.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Classic Kidnapping Film
Comment: Great story! Great acting by many fine actors. Not to be missed for suspense and a view of Mexico City like never before.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: You will be her father now...
Comment: Just a quick note to say that I love this movie. I cry at the end every time and I have watched it over and over to fully understand all the implications of Creasy's journey. The music is amazing and I have purchased the cd. The same composer was used in Spy Game so you can recognize the music.
There is a double dvd of this movie that will show you all the deleted scenes and how the movie was made. Be sure to get this instead of the one dvd.
Dakota really held her own against Denzel. Great movie.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Excellent Movie
Comment: This may be my favorite movie of all time and I'm not sure why this did not get more accolades. I think Denzel was better in Man on Fire then he was in Training Day. It is a very gritty and raw movie, which I think sometimes scares away the critics, but everything was top notch in this film . . . and Christoper Walken is always a plus. I've watched this movie many times and love it every time I watch it.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: "The Professional" Number II
Comment: Lots of parallels with "The Professional": a lost soul/bodyguard who finds meaning in life once again due to vibrational re-alignment with life ignited by interacting with a much younger soul.


Terribly violent but fast paced and exciting. A nice porthole in to life in Mexico City.

I like "The Professional" but in "Man on Fire", you truly get to appreciate what a rare actor Denzel W. is- watch him in "Training Day".

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